A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Department

It was an honor and a pleasure to host Justice Scalia earlier this month at our school.  During his visit with us, he taught my constitutional law class.  Here he is responding to a question I had about how originalism can accommodate and coexist with what will soon be more than a century of substantive due process precedent (after all, Pierce v. Society of Sisters turns 100 in about a decade).  The Justice was animated and incisive in his response.  In fact, my students quite reasonably suggested to me after class that, if given the choice, they'd probably prefer to finish out the rest of the semester with the Justice as their teacher.